Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Race at Lucerne World Cup

Henrik Rummel took gold at the Samsung World Rowing Cup over the weekend.

LUCERNE, Switzerland - Henrik Rummel ’09
won gold with the United States men’s four, highlighting the
performances of Harvard and Radcliffe alumni and current
student-athletes at the Samsung World Rowing Cup #3 on the
Rotsee.

Four other Harvard and Radcliffe athletes also raced at Lucerne
– Vincent Breet '16, Michael DiSanto ’12, Esther
Lofgren ’09 and Michael Wales ’14. Breet helped South
Africa win the B Final in a time of 6:29.63. Wales took silver
behind Great Britain in the light men’s pair with Tyler Nase.
The pair finished with a time of 6:36.17.

Rummel and USA finished the race in 5:50.78, just under one
second ahead of second-place Australia.

"I don't think we're quite as fast as we were last year, because
it's a post-Olympic year, but the US team as a whole is in much
better spot right now than we were four years ago," said
Rummel to Erik Dresser of row2k.com. "We have a full group
training and fast people back in Princeton ready to take our seats.
We are excited for the road ahead, but I also don't want to blow it
up to more than it is - World Cup gold in a post-Olympic year.

"This is our first international event, ever, and my first
international event in a sweep boat," said Wales to row2k.com. "Our
plan was to just to keep it under control and realize that you
can't go out too hard in the beginning, especially in international
racing. You have to be smart.

"We knew we were going to have a really big move at the end and
so we were trying to stay in contention," he continued. "When we
came into the 350 (meters to go), we really started moving. I think
that's when we knew we were going to do something special. That's
when we just kept going, and kept feeding off of each other and
just kept building off of each other's pushes all the way through
the line."

The USA men's eight boat also raced in the "Harry Parker,"
handing Germany its first loss since 2009.